Legal Services Bill [HL]

I am saying, and I will reiterate it, that I do not want these considerations in the Bill, for the reasons I have given, but I think the issues that have been raised by the noble Lord, Lord Kingsland, are of genuine concern, and I would expect the board to take them into account. It will make its decision about how it wishes the rules to be, taking into account the issues that will have been raised with it, just as they have been raised with me and my honourable friend Bridget Prentice. The board will then set out the rules, which will come to your Lordships’ House and another place under a statutory instrument. I hope the noble Lord, Lord Maclennan of Rogart, will see that as a consequence those issues have been addressed. I was saying that from the Government’s perspective, these are issues of genuine concern that we accept need to be addressed properly. We will leave it up to the board how it does that.